Sadiq Khan, the Shadow Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, gave a speech to the Fabians and the Prison Reform Trust on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 in which he said that the drive by the government to cut prison numbers was not on the grounds of criminal justice but purely on economic principles.
Regarding rehabilitation, he went on to say that he was unsure that the government was offering any real alternative to prison and that the policies of the Ministry of Justice were founded on the short-term need to cut costs not crime and that successful rehabilitation required resources.
In his view the government is taking a very short-sighted view of the rehabilitation process and in the long run are gambling with public safety and that, as a consequence, there is a real and genuine danger that, because of their policies, crime will rise.
I tend to agree with Mr Khan, watch this space as they say.
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